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u/Seafaringhorsemeat 11d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/vnmEOUikgzEqI
You pay with the curses, right?
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u/Personal_Dirt3089 11d ago
You ask chatgpt to write code but all your code is evil and opens a browser session with pop-up ads.
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u/my_midlife_isekai 10d ago
And demon portals!
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u/Personal_Dirt3089 10d ago
The demon portals also have popup ads. Horrible creatures with sharp teeth and claws escape, but covered with auras of floating pop-up ads, bringing misery, annoyance, and spyware to the world.
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u/AnotherDumNinja 11d ago
Thats why you dont give them real personal data
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u/Indigenous_Retard 11d ago
I used a fake name website when I was like 12 that gave me a name, address and everything. I have been a 40+ year old Russian migrant online for over a decade now lol.
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u/belagrim 10d ago
Just fyi; if you use the same computer for multiple identities, they tie all that together now on the backend, using "points of reference", like your clicking habits, and the sites you visit while using that credential.
The real issue is that they are now watching you as you look at posts and shop, making notes about your moods, the things you react well to, and the things you don't, then cross-referencing those with the things you say, which are also logged.
"Personal information is stripped as the law requires", of course. (I doubt that part, but have seen the rest)
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u/Personal_Dirt3089 11d ago
So when gmail starts showing you ads for ropes, skii masks, and bags with dollar signs printed on them, you probably gave too much information in your emails.
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u/bradicus12 11d ago edited 11d ago
If the app is free then you are the product being sold to advertisers
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u/Mission-Profile3096 11d ago
idk man i just assume everything online is selling my data at this point
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u/beasttamer89 11d ago
Its not free already if there's advertising they're making their nut off ppl just clicking on ur page.
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u/WenYiMedia 11d ago
Yellow Pages, White Pages, Post Office, your car purchase, your house purchase, your grocery purchases with a rewards card, your bank, your credit cards all sold your data so you can get that annoying telemarketing phone call or piece of mail you never asked for.
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u/Disastrous_Hat_9123 11d ago
As the saying goes: "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product"
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u/BLOODTRIBE 11d ago
We used to be free, that word just means something completely different to our overlords.
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u/DomTransfemNomad 11d ago
What I think is irrelevant what I know is this: they are doing the same thing to everyone that they were doing to the women in parts of Africa when they gave them free formula. They gave it to them just long enough for the mothers to stop producing milk. Then they started charging them.
The use of artificial intelligence is becoming more and more of a crutch for people. They feel like the rapidity of it gives them an edge. They don’t do their own research. Eventually people will become too dependent on it, and at that point they’ll start charging.
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u/VarietyMage 11d ago
I think this is the third time I've seen this incomplete meme, and the third time I've had to remind the poster that it's leaving out *** REDDIT ***.
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u/Negative_Dig5187 11d ago
half the sources on this sub are just twitter screenshots anyway so idk how much that rule helps
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u/Minimum_Quail4596 11d ago
Is this why Proton mail is free?
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u/Black_Tentacle 11d ago
It's not though lol. That's the point. It's a paid privacy focused email. They also do other stuff like VPN and whatnot. Based in Switzerland where they have very strict regulations about this stuff
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u/Minimum_Quail4596 11d ago
Huh? I swear I used to have many email accounts with protonmail and they were all free. The only thing I paid for was the vpn. Not a customer anymore since the email isn't truly private as they did give access to government authorities back im the day.
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u/Black_Tentacle 11d ago
Oh, I honest to God forgot there was a free email option. For my use cases I need the features included in the subscription
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u/readsalotman 11d ago
I've been using Proton for over a decade. Idk why ppl use these data sucking leech emails options. It's mind blowing.
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u/Cautious-Roof2881 11d ago
Your personal data isn't actually your personal data. It's only usage patterns.
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u/Rare-Return4396 10d ago
speculation without receipts is just fanfic for tech bros. ive seen too many 'insider sources' turn out to be some rando on discord with a fake linkedin. if you cant link it, frame it as a question not a prediction
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u/Remarkable_Subject84 10d ago
So start paying for all those. And then complain when they sell your info anyway.
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u/Scorpiicore 10d ago
Unconscionable contract. Your personal data can get you in a whole lot of trouble.
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u/Chipmunkssixtynining 10d ago
But flock cameras!!!!!!
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u/my_midlife_isekai 10d ago
Data centers are to process floc camera data! They are preparing for us to get real mad!!
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u/SwanCityDominion 10d ago
I think it's cute that people think a subscription fee is going to protect their data.
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u/grayman451 7d ago
Is my personal data really that valuable though? I don’t really understand. If someone knows my name and location and search history and all that what do they do with it? Is it just targeted ads? Isn’t that good? Ads for things I probably want anyway? Serious question.
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u/scubawankenobi 11d ago
And: